The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-22
J. W. DORRINGTON, Proprietor.
NUMBER AZ.

"WelI, James, like your looks. and do not doubt your ability, but l no1 tieed the stump of cigar in your fin gers as you came in, and your clothes are filled with the odor of tobacco How long have you smokedP"
 1.-Two years or more," he answered, looking resentfully at the gentleman, though he had the grace to blush
 '.sfy boy, do you know you are sow ing the seeds of misery?"
 9It rests nie to smoke"
 Rests you! Ali, poor child, might preach you long sermon, tell of the blighted lives, ruined nerves, and empty pockets, but forbear. My lad, learn lesson. throw it away before It is too late. I'll excuse you now. :"
 The boy went out in swaggering, indifferent way, mutterfng something about taking away mans liberty
 Pityingly. Mir. Lord saw him depart The next boy was clean and pure to look at, and handed his recommenda- ton to Mr. Lord in very self-satistled way. The gentleman, with the scene of the morning fresh in his mind, even when he read the complimentary words, written by his own minister, could not say "Yes'' to such an appli- cant. He had no doubt of his tine scholarship, and his general appear ance was greatly in his favor, but, he said: Herbert, l came down on car No. 2 this morning and witnessed a little scene that you win recall. l ad- vertised for a gentlemanly lad I'll excuse you, now.
 With hot cheeks, he departed
 The next was boy with fine face, but not as well grown as the others, and with no recommendation except note from his mother. Mir. Lord read: 'Dear Sir: We are strangers in the city. know of no one who, with this short notice, can recommend my boy A mother may be partial in her judg- ment, but he is a good boy, and you, II you will take the trouble, can learn of his scholarship. Will you please give him chance to learn a trade that has great attractions for him? We have case in the house, and he can already set type quite rapidly. His father was a printer. Excuse this long note and oblige. Yours truly. M. A. Graham.
 "Well, mother ought to know, he said to himself, and as his eye took in the air of responsibility that pervaded the dress of the boy, he realized that unless supplanted by new, it would soon become very shabby; and he re- called the time when his own mother came to the city with her small children and the disappointments that he, her oldest child. had met with, before he gained foothold in the seething tide of humanity that surrounded the un- sophisticated youth.
 "If you can give us little time. sir, mother will write to our old home, and get the names of parties who will give me recommendation.
 My boy, advertised for a gentle manly lad, and of that l have had in- disputable evidence already, and the examination will now give you will settle the question of scholarship. Every thing else I'll take on trust, feel ing confident that I shall not be de- ceived."
 That evening Mrs. Atkinson, when discussing affairs with an acquaint- ance, said:
 '.I can not understand the luck of some folks. Herbert went to the edi- tor of the Bee this morning, and was only the second boy there" "Yes, my boy got there first" interrupted the other, "and he had letter from one of MT. Lords own friends" ''And my boy," broke in the first speaker, "had a recommendation from our minister, and even then MT. Lord took a shabby little fellow, Herbert says, who doesn't know any body in town. Such luck?
 Was it luck, boys?-Ned Gum, t's s. s. Times.